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Dormancy
Dor´man`cy
n.
1.
The
state
of
being
dormant
;
quiescence
;
abeyance
.
1.
The
state
of
being
dormant
;
quiescence
;
abeyance
.
It
is
by
lying
dormant
a
long
time
,
or
being
. . .
very
rarely
exercised
,
that
arbitrary
power
steals
upon
a
people
.
- Burke.
2.
(Her.)
In
a
sleeping
posture
;
as
,
a
lion
dormant
; -
distinguished
from
couchant
.
Dormant partner
(Com.)
a
partner
who
takes
no
share
in
the
active
business
of
a
company
or
partnership
,
but
is
entitled
to
a
share
of
the
profits
,
and
subject
to
a
share
in
losses
; -
called
also
sleeping partner
or
silent partner
.
Dormant window
(Arch.)
a
dormer
window
.
See
Dormer
.
Table dormant
a
stationary
table
.
- Chaucer.
Noun
1.
dormancy
-
a
state
of
quiet
(
but
possibly
temporary
)
inaction
; "
the
volcano
erupted
after
centuries
of
dormancy
"
Synonyms:
quiescence
,
quiescency
2.
dormancy
-
quiet
and
inactive
restfulness
Synonyms:
quiescence
,
quiescency
,
sleeping
a
wise
passiveness
,
abeyance
,
apathy
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
cold
storage
,
contemplation
,
contemplative
life
,
deadliness
,
deathliness
,
delitescence
,
do-nothing
policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
doldrums
,
entropy
,
hibernation
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
intermission
,
interruption
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
latency
,
latent
content
,
latent
meaningfulness
,
latentness
,
lotus-eating
,
lull
,
meditation
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent
resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive
resistance
,
passive
self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
possibility
,
potentiality
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quiescency
,
quietism
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
suspense
,
suspension
,
torpor
,
underactivity
,
vegetation
,
virtuality
,
vis
inertiae
,
vita
contemplativa
,
waiting
game
,
watching
and
waiting
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